52
votes
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50
votes
49
votes
46
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Save the last bullet for yourself
Emo Wolf With A Gun
He's back. He hates zombies. He still hates Java. No copyright infringement intended.
...
- 3,347
43
votes
BrainF***edBotsForBattling - A Brainf*** Tournament
Cloaking Device Bot
This bot basically tries to hide its base, making it so that other bots will move right past it and off the tape.
(-)*127(-+--+-++)*12500
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39
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36
votes
Accepted
Caveman Duels (or: Me poke you with sharp stick)
Darwin - C
Who needs strategy, anyway?
Have a group of cavemen go at each other and let natural selection do the rest!
We use a very simple model for out caveman's primitive brain: it has no memory ...
- 711
34
votes
xkcd 2385 KoTH (Final Exam)
Game Theory is stupid anyway
{
name: "Game Theory is stupid anyway",
run: _ => 100
}
Senioritis hits hard sometimes.
- 3,961
30
votes
29
votes
Good Versus Evil
C++, The Meta Scientist
This one does essentially the same as The Scientist, but doesn't operate on rounds as a whole but on the individual players. It tries to map a wave (or a constant function) to ...
- 2,044
29
votes
Accepted
Gold Collector KoTH
BaitBot - JavaScript Node.JS
Why bother chasing or running if you can never catch? Instead, BaitBot finds the nearest coin and waits for a weaker bot to also approach it. When they're both adjacent, ...
- 1,189
28
votes
The Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock Tournament of Epicness
Pony (Python 2)
This is based on a rock-paper-scissors bot I wrote some time ago for a programming challenge at the end of a Udacity online class. I changed it to include Spock and lizard and made ...
- 1,528
28
votes
xkcd 2385 KoTH (Final Exam)
Balanced Strategy
What could be more balanced than returning all of the numbers? Rotates by one after every game.
...
- 281
27
votes
Survival Game - AlienWar
Manager
Here's a manager. Naturally, the cleverness is 0 and he always strives to go where the sun don't shine. And, of course, he will only fight the weak and is very good in dodging trouble:
...
- 2,734
27
votes
27
votes
The Futuristic Gun Duel
The BlackHatPlayer
The BlackHat Player knows that bullets and shields are a thing of the past; the actual wars are won by those who can hack the opponent's programs....
- 3,779
26
votes
26
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What Doesn't Kill Me…
C++ - MonteBot
Simulates a large number of random games and chooses the move that leads to the greatest chance of not-dying.
Why think of a strategy when you can let the computer create one for you?
...
- 271
25
votes
Caveman Duels (or: Me poke you with sharp stick)
Cave Doctor - Lua
"Me lose to new foreigners, knocked them out to study them"
When you've seen as many patients as the cave doctor, you begin to truly understand the cave man psyche (or so I hope). ...
- 641
25
votes
Totally Blind Chess
Just Everything
Generates a list of every possibly legal move, shuffles it, then cycles through it repeatedly.
Since there are only 1792 possibly legal moves, this will never forfeit due to the 2000-...
- 1,196
24
votes
24
votes
Accepted
xkcd 2385 KoTH (Final Exam)
Offset Prediction
I'd made a bot that just optimizes for the moving average of the averages (which worked reasonably well), and while testing I noticed that the actual averages seem to jump around the ...
- 1,561
23
votes
What Doesn't Kill Me…
Java Psycho
There's no telling what this crazed psycho will do - may attack anyone: a dead bot, or even himself.
...
- 523
23
votes
xkcd 2385 KoTH (Final Exam)
Sam (Self-Aware Maximizer)
Finds the output cybersecurity score that maximizes the total score including the own output in the mean. Assumes that the sum of all other bots' scores is going to be the ...
- 331
22
votes
Caveman Duels (or: Me poke you with sharp stick)
ForeignCaveman
ForeignCaveman has no idea what you just said. He just... does stuff.
javac ForeignCaveman.java then ...
- 1,311
22
votes
You are the Weakest Link, Goodbye
Sniper
The general idea is to keep around one of the stupid players (i.e. ones we are more likely to beat in the face-off) to snipe for the points. After that we try to remove the other low-value ...
- 1,958
22
votes
xkcd 2385 KoTH (Final Exam)
Max
Max.
{
name: "Max",
max: "max",
run:(max)=> Math.max(...max)
}
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22
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xkcd 2385 KoTH (Final Exam)
FunnyNumber
{
name: "FunnyNumber",
run() { return 69 }
}
Somebody has to do it.
- 2,350
22
votes
21
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Caveman Duels (or: Me poke you with sharp stick)
Vice-Leader
Doorknob♦ is leader. Me want be leader! Follow super intelligent program to become leader!
Compile: javac ViceLeader.java Run: ...
- 4,712
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